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70+ Library Quotes

Library is the most amazing human invention. Libraries are the most deep and the most silent ocean of this world. One can go to a library even if he is happy or he is sad. A library never betrays you. It keeps serving knowledge and pleasure. Check out this beautiful collection of 70+ library quotes and sayings.



1. A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. Norman Cousins
2. A library implies an act of faith. Victor Hugo
3. Your library is your paradise. Desiderius Erasmus
4. If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Marcus Tullius Cicero
5. I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges
6. A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. Henry Ward Beecher
7. The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history. Carl T. Rowan
8. Your library is your portrait. Holbrook Jackson
9. A library is thought in cold storage. Herbert Samuel
10. An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them. Stephen Fry
11. Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest. Lady Bird Johnson
12. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years. Ray Bradbury
13. Without the library, I would have been lost. Jesmyn Ward
14. A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure. Arthur Baer
15. The public library system of the United States is worth preserving. Henry Rollins
16. Why buy a book when you can join a library. Ricky Gervais
17. One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library. Deb Caletti
18. No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. Samuel Johnson
19. Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me. Anatole France
20. If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library. Peter Singer
21. Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library. Barbara Tuchman
22. What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists. Archibald MacLeish
23. Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library. Charles Bukowski
24. If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? Lily Tomlin
25. I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man. John le Carre
26. The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. Lynda Barry
27. I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher. Mark Ruffalo
28. I collect musical theatre anthologies. I have a whole library of them. Tituss Burgess
29. You start to accumulate your library of music. You want that music everywhere - that's the point where we monetize. If you want portability, mobility, and access, then you buy it. Sean Parker
30. If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing. David Harsanyi
31. But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library. Andrew Wiles
32. With the scale of our traffic, content library and monetization ability, we are confident to see profitable growth in the future. Victor Koo
33. And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts. Cornelia Funke
34. You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books. Joanna Trollope
35. My library is an archive of longings. Susan Sontag
36. A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. Shelby Foote
37. The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man. T.S. Eliot
38. The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library. Albert Einstein
39. The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history. Lemony Snicket
40. We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth. John Lubbock
41. What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education. Harold Howe
42. What in the world would we do without our libraries? Katharine Hepburn
43. If your library is not "unsafe," it probably isn't doing its job. John Berry
44. Libraries raised me. Ray Bradbury
45. The library is like a candy store where everything is free. Jamie Ford
46. Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library. Walter Savage Landor
47. Nothing is more impotent than an unread library. John Waters
48. The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned. Alberto Manguel
49. The public library is where place and possibility meet. Stuart Dybek
50. If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be. Alberto Manguel
51. The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. Anatole Broyard
52. Paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges
53. A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window. Stewart Brand
54. Who wants a library full of books you've already read? Harlan Ellison
55. A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn. Victor Hugo
56. A great library contains the diary of the human race. George Mercer Dawson
57. Please bury me in the library . With a dozen long-stemmed proses. J. Patrick Lewis
58. The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself. Alberto Manguel
59. A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet. Samuel Niger
60. Library. It's where we lock up all those books before they start giving kids ideas," I said solemnly. "Very dangerous place to be. Scott Tracey
61. You build a thousand castles, a thousand sanctuaries, you are nothing; you build a library, you are everything! Mehmet Murat ildan
62. Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
63. Every library should try to complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
64. Books will give you new ideas to fly and books can be find in the libraries. Abid Hussain
65. Silence will always fill a library. Anthony T. Hincks
66. Library is direction where wisdom start and ignorance end. Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith. Irvine Welsh
67. A library is more precious than a bank.
68. A library needs readers to talk.
69. A man's library opens up his character to the world. Matthew Pearl
70. At certain rare moments, a library is a kind of mind.
71. Knowledge is free at the library. Just bring your own container. Anonymous
72. A library is a hospital for the mind. Anonymous
73. People are living books. The real library of life is community. Bryant McGill
74. A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. Norman Cousins
75. I wish that death had spared me until your library had been complete. Lorenzo de' Medici
76. The library is a symbol of freedom. Sara Sheridan
77. Anyone who thinks this world is without magic, hasn't been to a library. Amy Fellner Dominy
78. In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession. John Bright


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